Stephanie

I groan as I roll out of bed. Time to shower and save my daughter from my mother. I have a quick shower put my hair uo into a pony tail and apply a little eye liner. I look in my kitchen, I guess I am going to have to go shopping and remember no mixing the olives and peanut butter anymore.

I feed Rex and leave. I hope mom is making pancakes today. It a sunny day out at least. I drive into the burg and park behind my moms car. Grandma is already at the door waiting for me.

"we got eggs and bacon"

I smile and walk into the house.

"Stephanie!" Gabriella jumped on me

"I am happy to see you too"

I kiss her forehead

"we have hot coffee" called mom from the kitchen

"we will eat and then head out" I say caring my daughter into the kitchen

"what are your plans for today?" mom asked

"Well Gabriella is going to see where I sometimes work"

I turn to my daughter

"your going to see Ranger"

she smiled. My mother placed breakfast on the table

"you know Betty Gosling daughter just got a job at the button factory I bet they are still hiring, they have health insurance"

Grandma snorted

"but that's lame plus she gets to shoot people"

Gabriella looked over at me

"you shoot people?"

nice going Grandma

"almost never"

I smile at her. She just eats. I stroke her hair. Her beautiful loose curls are so soft. I sip my coffee and finish my breakfast.

"okay let's go" I say taking her hand

"give Grandma a hug little miss" said my mother walking over to hug her

"bye Grandmas"

"see ya honey" said Grandma

"bye" I say walking out

"so we are going to see Ranger"

"we are going to his work were you can meet the rest of the team"

while the ones who like me at least. RangMan looks like an abandon brick building from the outside but inside it is highly cutting edge.

"okay here we go"

I park the car outside and actually let them buzz me in instead of just entering. I hold Gabriella's hand nada we arrive on the fourth floor, not surprised when a large group of the merry men are already waiting for us.

"she's so perfect" says Lester running over

"you are so cute" he says picking her up

"I'm Lester" he cooed at her

"you can call me Uncle Lester"

he kisses her head

"okay"

she smiles and give me a hug

"she's so cute can I keep her?"

I roll my eyes

"no you can't keep her"

he pouted fine

"hello sweetie I'm Hal"

Hal is a complete sweet heart but he gets teased because of his looks.

"Hi Hal"

a few others introduce themselves but Lester refuses to let anyone else hug her. I roll my eyes at him. Tank is the last introduce himself. I know the only reason Lester gave Gabrielle to him is because he didn't want Tank to kick his ass.

"I have something for you"

the man of few words gives my daughter a really big smile

"now Uncle Tank had these made for you"

he shifts her so she is steady on his hip

"what did get her?" I asked

"a few shirts a sweater"

"don't you all have work" said a stern voice.

"Ranger!"

Tank put her down and she ran into Ranger's arms

"hello I heard someone drew me a picture"

I laughed as everyone else coped them. They look so cute. I open up the bag and look at the items. All were black with the RangMan logo on them. I pull out one that said all boy beware protect my RangMan. I laughed hard, that made my day

"Babe?" asked Ranger,

I show him the shirt. He gave a smile

"cute"

"so it officially you all will flip a coin to see who gets to kill her first boyfriend"

he puts her down

"go play with your Uncles"

she smiles and goes to play with the men

"I need to talk to you"

"about what?"

"a job"

I raise an eyebrow

"I could use the money"

I sigh

"I was thinking something more permanent"

oh no I don't like where this is going

"Babe"

"please not you too you have a kid and you still work in the field"

"you can still work for Vinny and for me part time"

I sigh I could use more steady money since I have Gabriella

"fine but I still work for Vinny"

he nodded

"so do you know any places that are renting?"

he raised an eyebrow

"I need to get Gabriella out of my mother's house so I am going to need a bigger place"

he nodded

"I will look into it"

I over my daughter with the guys. Somehow this feels completely right.